Did you ever wonder how del.icio.us got it’s name?
When .us became available, I wrote a quick script to figure out the shortest prefixes that would allow me to generate the most number of names:
$ grep us$ /usr/dict/words | sed 's/.*\(....\)\(us\)$/\1.\2/' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail 6 aceo.us 6 mino.us 7 ario.us 7 onio.us 7 urio.us 8 aneo.us 8 orio.us 10 itio.us 14 icio.us 18 acio.us
I’ve used /usr/dict/words in the past to find strange and unique words. I’ll really have to remember to do that more often…